Kawasaki Jet Ski Champs test drive the upcoming GameCube launch title, Wave Race: Blue Storm. Take a look at what they thought.

Earlier this month, two real life “wave racers” got to try NST / Nintendo’s latest jet ski wonder, Wave Race: Blue Storm. Chris MacClugage (left w/ yellow hat) and Dustin Motzouris (right, seated), World and National Champion title holders with the Kawasaki JET SKIR Racing Team go thumb to thumb in a "wave race" of the virtual kind at the 2001 Skat-Trak World Championships in Lake Havasu, Arizona on October 13.

Boston, Minneapolis, and San Francisco are blessed this weekend with the arrival of the Cube Clubs! Get the info you need to play till you can't stand.

That's right folks...Cube Clubs are heading all over the place. I'm obviously gearing up for the Minneapolis Cube Club in the Mall of America tonight. My magic ticket arrived just a few hours ago....

We'll have full coverage coming to you from Minneapolis, and San Francisco beginning tonight!

Not one, but TWO games in the infamous Mortal Kombat series are in the works for Nintendo's handheld.

Today Midway released a huge new release schedule, much of it unchanged from the last time they did so. However, there were some new GBA games on there, including Ultimate Mortal Kombat for a Q1 2002 release, and Mortal Kombat 5 for a Q3 2002 release. MK5 has already been confirmed for GameCube and will come out approximately the same time...perhaps they'll link up?

According to Left Field, the sequel to the N64 Snowboarding game is not currently being worked on.

Games Radar has heard from the president of Left Field, Mike Lamb, about the state of 1080° Snowboarding 2. After hearing rumors of the game being canceled, Lamb told Games Radar "We were developing a Gamecube snowboarding game for Nintendo but we have stopped work on the project. I really can't comment on the reasons."

It looks like “Pikalele” isn’t the only new, mysterious thing being registered as a trademark for Nintendo…

If you’ve followed our coverage recently, you’ll know about trademarks registered for Pikalele, something that seems related to music and Pokemon. It seems that this was not the only trademark . Ten days prior to the trademarks for Pikalele, NOA filed a trademark for “Poke Doll.” What Poke Doll is seems hard to say, though it does seem very artistically oriented. Here’s the trademark:

My question is, how are you going to be able to go to the bathroom?

Nintendo has posted a very funny commercial short on their website. Click

here to go to the page.

It's a small 5 meg Quicktime file.

Fluff up that mullet, toss on the Megadeth t-shirt, and strap on the super tight black jeans. Raise your lighters, and get ready to roxor your boxors!

Well not quite. Pikmin hits Friday, and we've gotten our hands on a song to get you in the mood.

We're not exactly sure where in the game this song will appear, but we're sure it's in it. Wanna rock out live in Shiggy's garden? Click here to download the 1:24 mystery song (576k).

Special thanks to Hardcore Gamers for the bandwith love!

EA’s cartoon vehicle combat game is no longer exclusive to the X-Box.

Cel Damage has just been announced for Nintendo GameCube. The cel shaded car combat game had previously been announced as a X-Box exclusive but there have been some rumors of a Cube version. The game will still premiere on the X-Box on November 15th and will hit NGC in December. The GameCube version... Read more...

Looks like the future of online gaming with Sega will revolve around money. Seganet news! Eat it up.

Sega has announced today that they'll begin charging gamers $9.95 a month to play games on their online network starting November 1. Reuters has the beef....

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online arm of Japanese game publisher Sega Corp. (7964.T) said on Tuesday it would begin charging $9.95 a month as of Nov. 1 for unlimited access to its online network for multiplayer video games.

Looks like the future of online gaming with Sega will revolve around money. Seganet news! Eat it up.

Sega has announced today that they'll begin charging gamers $9.95 a month to play games on their online network starting November 1. Reuters has the beef....

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online arm of Japanese game publisher Sega Corp. (7964.T) said on Tuesday it would begin charging $9.95 a month as of Nov. 1 for unlimited access to its online network for multiplayer video games.

If you placed some bad ju-ju upon us, and our video, please get the hell away from us and jump in front of a moving bus. One more quick video update.

We’ve been receiving a lot of e-mails, and I’ve been in very close contact with our good friends from Gaming Edge about the shipping of the E3 Videos. Yesterday I received my personal copy of the videos and CDs, and sat down and watched everything straight through. Let me tell you, even though... Read more...

Yep! Don't want to spend your monies? Sega can help deliver the GameCube love you desire...

Sega has started their contest for you to win a free GameCube, some controllers, and of course, a copy of Super Monkey Ball.

Click the link above to head to the site. You can play a pretty spiffy flash version of Monkey Ball Mini. It's not quite the same, but it should (key word there is should) tide you over momentarily.

Square recaps its fallout with Nintendo and realizes when you feast on arrogance, you get humble pie for dessert.

Before Sony bought 19% of Square, there were numerous Nintendo/Square rumors, supported several promising developments over the past few months, all overshadowed by statements made by NCL’s president Hiroshi Yamauchi earlier this year. After Square first publicly expressed interest in the GBA,... Read more...

What on earth is Nintendo going for with this one? UPDATE: A new trademark and new info!

Those wacky folks over at Tendo Box decided to search the US Patent & Trademark Office for things Nintendo has recently trademarked. It seems as if they have hit pay dirt. In searching for new trademarks they came up with the word "Pikalele." Most likely, this points to some kind of Pikachu ukulele.

The Nintendo marketing blitz expands...to your instant messenger. Yahoo! Get it? Mwhahahahahaha!

Super Smash Bros. to command Yahoo! Instant Messenger? It's true. Too bad we can't play the game online....

Buoyed by the growth of its instant messaging service -- and by the popularity of such services among wireless consumers worldwide -- Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO - news) has launched the next... Read more...

We've got the first info on Aerial Aces and Caesar's Palace Advance.

The game box for Majesco's GBA title Boxing Fever (and probably other recently and soon-to-be released Majesco games) contains a promotional leaflet outlining the company's current and future GBA lineup. Oddly enough, the leaflet has a profile for Caesar's Palace Advance and a teaser for Aerial Aces -- two games we've never even heard of.

That's right, Nintendo means business. PH33R.

According to one of our loyal PGC readers, the arcade in the University of Calgary (located in Calgary, Alberta), has been giving out free SHINEY GameCube stickers.

Observe:

Special thanks to Dustin for the |337 scan.

You Capcom geeks probably saw them coming, though. Art inside!

Fighters.net has the dirt - the new characters are, you guessed it, Eagle, Yun, and Maki. (No sign of Kyosuke yet, however.)

Head on over to the gallery and check out the character art.

That's not all! There are some sharp new screens with the new guys in action.

Like, we're going to the EA Sports 500, ok?

Alabama loves NASCAR. EA Sports also loves NASCAR. Now, through the magic of transitive logic, EA Sports has brought the gaming industry to one of the last places you'd ever expect to find it, and PGC is all up in this biootch.

This year's autumn Winston Cup race in Talladega, AL is the first... Read more...

Those bad little flower creatures get platinum, but there is a catch.

Famitsu Advance has awarded Pikmin a 38 out of 40. The scan of Famitsu Advance.

Famitsu Advance is Famitsu's Nintendo only publication. Does that mean they're biased? Well, typically, they give marginally higher scores to games than the multi-console Famitsu (which has a different panel of reviewers), but not much higher (and sometimes lower). Famitsu Advance is not owned or run by Nintendo.